Someone I met a while back during the SCBWI workshops and meetings, was published recently. Amazing writer who was in a really dedicated writing group and now she's making her way around with a book tour. I'm so excited for her and makes me more motivated to get my butt moving on writing whenever I have free time. So I'm either writing online or in a journal trying to capture some funny things that B says or some mannerisms that C does. So many great memories and so many opportunities for some fun stories.

Sunday: chicken apretada(Pilipino chicken stew) with white rice
Monday: beef stew
Tuesday: leftovers
Wednesday: chicken merlot with wild mushrooms
Thursday: leftovers
Friday: curry coconut curry
Saturday: off to Vegas baby!

Wow. We were having such a great upward trend the past few weeks and then all the Middle East challenges appeared which then effected oil prices. It's such a whirlwind of excitement and devastation. When world affairs really shake things up you see it trickle down to the stocks. Some of the highest volume change and price% change decrease include EPB at 1.75% but almost 3000% volume change. That's crazy volume change. FN and FNSR come up behind with a little over 1000% change in volume. FN had a -24.39% price%change and FNSR was -38.54% change. This is pretty hot stocks involve in some really fascinating changes for the technology sphere but slammed hard by recent political/global events. WOW! One of my vows this year was to be better about watching the overall market and track a few stocks with my old method(CANSLIM) but hoping to do more research on new methods while just holding long for more traditional holdings. I hope for more free time after the escrow closes on the house and I can refocus and maybe do more training in my stock portfolio.

Sunday - J and kids off to sis-in-law for birthday dinner, I eat pb&j sandwich.
Monday- Chili, cornbread, mixed greens with fig balsamiq vinegerette
Tuesday - leftovers
Wednesday - sweet & sour chicken
Thursday - leftovers
Friday - fish(it's Lent and so thinking maybe we have something vegetarian/fish on Fridays)